Emmanuel Théaulon
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Marie-Emmanuel-Guillaume-Marguerite Théaulon de Lambert (14 August 1787, Aigues-Mortes
- 16 November 1841) was a French playwright.
A customs inspector, then an inspector of military hospitals, he composed an Ode on the birth of the King of Rome
which brought him thanks from Napoleon himself. In 1814 he sang for the Bourbons and put on his first play, Les Clefs de Paris, ou le Dessert d’Henri IV (The Keys of Paris, or the Deservings of Henry IV), in their honour.
In 1815, he composed and organised the posting of proclamations in honour of Louis XVIII
. He collaborated on the royalist journals Le Nain rose, La Foudre, L’Apollon.
, he wrote and put on a large number (sometimes alone, sometimes with collaborators), 250 according to one account. Written extremely quickly, most of them are only sketches, whose style often leaves something to be desired but which do not lack wit and beauty. He wrote two five-act verse comedies, L’Artiste ambitieux (1820) and L’Indiscret ( 1825), both put on at the Odéon, which sometimes rise to comic truth.
His other pieces include: Les fiancés (1809); Stanislas en voyage (1812); La clochette, opéra comique
(1817); Le petit chaperon rouge, opéra comique (1818); Paris à Pékin (1817); Le mariage à la hussarde (1819); Le grenadier de Fanchon (1824); Le bénéficiaire, with Étienne
(1825); La mère au bal et la fille a la maison (1826); M. Jovial, with Choquart (1827); Le père de la débutante, with Bayard
, etc.
Aigues-Mortes
Aigues-Mortes is a commune in the Gard department in southern France.The medieval city walls surrounding the city are well preserved.-History:...
- 16 November 1841) was a French playwright.
A customs inspector, then an inspector of military hospitals, he composed an Ode on the birth of the King of Rome
Napoleon II of France
Napoléon II , after 1818 known as Franz, Duke of Reichstadt, was the son of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, and his second wife, Marie Louise of Austria...
which brought him thanks from Napoleon himself. In 1814 he sang for the Bourbons and put on his first play, Les Clefs de Paris, ou le Dessert d’Henri IV (The Keys of Paris, or the Deservings of Henry IV), in their honour.
In 1815, he composed and organised the posting of proclamations in honour of Louis XVIII
Louis XVIII of France
Louis XVIII , known as "the Unavoidable", was King of France and of Navarre from 1814 to 1824, omitting the Hundred Days in 1815...
. He collaborated on the royalist journals Le Nain rose, La Foudre, L’Apollon.
Selected works
Above all during the Bourbon restorationBourbon Restoration
The Bourbon Restoration is the name given to the period following the successive events of the French Revolution , the end of the First Republic , and then the forcible end of the First French Empire under Napoleon – when a coalition of European powers restored by arms the monarchy to the...
, he wrote and put on a large number (sometimes alone, sometimes with collaborators), 250 according to one account. Written extremely quickly, most of them are only sketches, whose style often leaves something to be desired but which do not lack wit and beauty. He wrote two five-act verse comedies, L’Artiste ambitieux (1820) and L’Indiscret ( 1825), both put on at the Odéon, which sometimes rise to comic truth.
His other pieces include: Les fiancés (1809); Stanislas en voyage (1812); La clochette, opéra comique
Opéra comique
Opéra comique is a genre of French opera that contains spoken dialogue and arias. It emerged out of the popular opéra comiques en vaudevilles of the Fair Theatres of St Germain and St Laurent , which combined existing popular tunes with spoken sections...
(1817); Le petit chaperon rouge, opéra comique (1818); Paris à Pékin (1817); Le mariage à la hussarde (1819); Le grenadier de Fanchon (1824); Le bénéficiaire, with Étienne
Charles-Guillaume Étienne
Charles-Guillaume Étienne was a French dramatist and miscellaneous writer.He was born in Chamouilley, Haute Marne. He held various municipal offices under the Revolution and came in 1796 to Paris, where he produced his first opera, Le Rêve, in 1799, in collaboration with Antoine-Frédéric Gresnick...
(1825); La mère au bal et la fille a la maison (1826); M. Jovial, with Choquart (1827); Le père de la débutante, with Bayard
Jean-François Bayard
Jean-François Alfred Bayard was a French playwright.-Life:As a law student and a lawyer's clerk, Bayard wrote with passion for the theatre and, after several attempts, had a great success at the Gymnase theatre, with la Reine de seize ans...
, etc.
Source
- Gustave Vapereau, Dictionnaire universel des littératures, Paris, Hachette, 1876, p. 1959